Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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